the mortgage

• “Another former chief who kept a directorship is Richard Syron , ousted as head of Freddie Mac in 2008 when the U.S. government seized the mortgage giant.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Staying on Boards After Humble Exit

• “Besieged by rising gas prices and inflation, his parents had been unable to make the mortgage payments on their farm.”

  Terror At Dawn

• “But Dr. Mendenhall holds the mortgage on our house.”

  Practical Demonkeeping

• “Oh! Then Mr. Fred Mostyn, if he is to inherit Rawdon, would like the mortgage removed?”

  The Man Between: An International Romance

• “Margaret Smith stood accused of conspiring and of a string of money-laundering charges for paying the mortgage on the land where the stills had been found.”

  Simon & Schuster: CHASING the WHITE DOG

• “I hate the paperwork, the record keeping, the mortgage payments—the endless little details that can drive an antidetail person like me up the wall.”

  Simon & Schuster: Creating Wealth

• “We once lost a mortgage payment at Christmas using Checkfree when the mortgage company claimed to have lost the check.”

  Simon & Schuster: The RVer’s Bible

• “Made 'em feel that they'd lost their friends and their money, and then foreclosed the mortgage on the old homestead in a this-is-very-sad-but-I-need-the-money tone.”

  Old Gorgon Graham

• “Adjustable term ARM—The total number of monthly payments is increased or decreased to reflect changes in the mortgage interest rates, but the amount of the monthly payment remains constant.”

  Simon & Schuster: MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK

• “The only mortgages on which the mortgage company can refuse extra payments are county bond money mortgages and federal-government-subsidized mortgages.”

  Simon & Schuster: MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK

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